With postseason play beginning this week, the Turkey Valley girls basketball team wanted to end the regular season strong last week before heading into regional play.
The New Hampton junior varsity girls basketball team’s winning streak reached three straight after they defeated Waukon, Charles City and Waterloo Columbus at the beginning of December to move them to 3-1 overall on the season.
Iowa’s high school football playoffs will basically remain the same for at least another year after the Iowa High School Athletic Association announced district assignments on Thursday.
Taking tuxedo orders wasn’t the main objective for Tim and Julie Denner Saturday; making contacts was.
And in a sense, that’s what the annual Wedding Extravaganza is all about.
Here’s what you need to know about New Hampton/Turkey Valley’s two Northeast Iowa Conference champs: Never, ever think you have points against Carson Babcock and Evan Rosonke until they’re on the scoreboard.
The answer from New Hampton senior Alexa Wemark came quickly, decisively and with a big smile.
“What’s better, draining a 3-pointer or making one of those great passes to Carlee like you did last night?”
The chances of winning an outright conference title just got a little slimmer Friday for both the Turkey Valley girls and boys as each team dropped games to MFL at the Trojan gym; the boys lost 59-55 and the girls were defeated 52-36.
New Hampton boys basketball coach Ryan Rausch is adamant that his team is, as he put it, “soooo close to putting it all together.”
But all the Chickasaws had to show for it last week was two more Northeast Iowa Conference losses.
